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This feels a little “meh”, but it is not a huge part of the game. Characters are far from looking real, stuck somewhere in the uncanny valley. Such cutscenes are in first-person view mode and offer very little interactivity – if you remember Dirt 2, it’s a little bit like that – this also reminds me of what Turn10 did in the recent Forza Horizon. Everything begins with selecting your driver’s look, its portrait, and deciding for which stable to run for.īecause the setup is kind of RPG-like, you don’t just jump from one race to the next – there are some kind of cut-scenes introducing you to the team manager, the R&D head, and various sponsors interested to recruit you for one-off events out of the main competition.

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All other opponents are the usual F1 drivers that you get to see on TV – thanks to the official F1 licensing. It’s almost designed like a RPG: you get in the shoes of a new pilot joining the F1 2017 season, trying to make a dent in the current competition.

This mode is where you are likely to spend most of your time, and honestly, you should. F1 2017 is a much better game than F1 2015 simply because it has a career mode.

No recommendation for “best performance” with AMD – does that mean there is still a large gap on Linux vs what nVidia can deliver with the GTX1070? Since we do not have AMD hardware to test, we will have to wait for the community to provide us with an answer.

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Don’t upgrade just for this game, it’s not necessary. I have had the game run just fine on Linux Mint 18.3, which is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Did they just forget, or it’s just fallen out of the radar because of low usage? Oh, and the Ubuntu 17.04 part is not a hard requirement. Note that there are two points of interest in the specs mentioned by Feral:

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8GB Nvidia 1070 graphics card, driver 384.90 or later.

3rd Generation AMD Graphics Core Next (Volcanic Islands), Mesa drivers 17.2.2 or later.

2GB Nvidia 680, driver 384.90 or later.

Oh, and Intel is not supported, but that’s hardly a surprise for this game. See below what was communicated by Feral. On the AMD Front, you have to rely on the Open Source drivers with Mesa, as long as you use the more recent libraries. This may not be a major problem, however, since you would anyway need a relatively powerful GPU for this game to run properly.

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Let’s start first with the obvious: do you have what it takes to play the game on Linux, hardware and software-wise? You should know that the Linux port only features a Vulkan renderer (no OpenGL this around, this is a first for Feral – and maybe a first for Linux gaming in general), so if you are a nVidia gamer like me, you will need at least GPU series 600 and above, and recent drivers – because nVidia does not provide any Vulkan driver for older GPUs.

Let’s hope it will be worth it for them this time – since F1 2017 is a much better game than F1 2015 in the first place. Apparently Feral folks were receptive enough to try again their luck with F1 2017. A bit of background on this port: when Feral announced they would not port F1 2016 to Linux despite them making a Mac port, quite a few folks expressed their disappointment on social networks such as Reddit – Feral’s rationale was that F1 2015’s sales were kind of disappointing, but Linux gamers had a counter argument: it wasn’t a good F1 game to start with, so Feral should not write F1 games off just because of one data point.

After GRID Autosport, F1 2015 (unfortunately an average game) and the recent Dirt Rally ( as reviewed), here is a new Codemasters game landing on Linux (after the Mac/Metal client). Feral Interactive has been good to us racing games fans.